Hello everyone I have followed the LFS book and installed LFS on my laptop. However, I have been trying several days now to boot it and I keep failing. This is a problem probably related to /etc/fstab (mounting more generally) or GRUB 2.
I used Kubuntu 10.10 (x86) to compile LFS. The output of " sudo sfdisk -l " is " Disk /dev/sda: 14593 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 0+ 7649- 7649- 61440000 83 Linux /dev/sda2 14020+ 14593- 574- 4603905 5 Extended /dev/sda3 7649+ 14019- 6371- 51174400 83 Linux /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sda5 14020+ 14593- 574- 4603904 82 Linux swap / Solaris " Kubuntu 10.10 is installed on /dev/sda1 and LFS on /dev/sda3. I used GRUB 2 that is installed on /dev/sda1 (the one that ships with Kubuntu 10.10) to boot LFS. However, it did not work. So then, I rebooted and while in grub>, I gave the command " ls (hd0,msdos3)/ " which printed out the following: " lost+found sources sys " This apparently means that /boot, as well as the rest of directories in /mnt/lfs, are not mounted. If I boot to Kubuntu and give " ls /mnt/lfs " I get " bin boot dev device.map etc home lib media mnt opt proc root sbin sources srv sys tmp usr var " Finally, I tried the following while on Kubuntu 10.10: " su - root mount -v --bind /dev $LFS/dev mount -vt devpts devpts $LFS/dev/pts mount -vt tmpfs shm $LFS/dev/shm mount -vt proc proc $LFS/proc mount -vt sysfs sysfs $LFS/sys chroot "$LFS" /usr/bin/env -i HOME=/root TERM="$TERM" PS1='\u:\w\$ ' PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin /bin/bash --login /sbin/reboot " and I got the following output: " WARNING: could not determine runlevel - doing soft reboot (it's better to use shutdown instead of reboot from the command line) shutdown: /dev/initctl: No such file or directory init: /dev/initctl: No such file or directory " I'd be grateful if you could help me sort this out... All the best Theodore
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